Feeling and Spreading the WordPress Love in the Rose City

Developing a non-profit web site

I’m a member of the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars, Men’s Auxiliary in Tualatin, Oregon and volunteered to migrate their hand-coded web site over to WordPress. In the process I chose a 3 column theme called Revolution Code Blue to help display the info-rich web site:

To show the Facebook badge in the right sidebar I could’ve used a plugin, but it was easier to just copy/paste the one line iframe code using a Text widget:

On the Home page we have a photo gallery as thumbnails using the plugin NextGEN Gallery:

Page Templates

There’s a member Bios page that uses a custom page template showing only Posts with a category of Bio:

Summary

I’ve developed a web site for a non-profit using a Theme and Plugins to get up and running quickly. It’s take me more effort to train other volunteers to use WordPress than it did to create the web site, but now I have volunteers that are in control of their own message and they don’t need to contact a webmaster to update content.